3.4% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Portland · Suburb / Locality
Language in Portland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people speak a language other than English in Portland compared to the rest of the state. Only 3.4% of residents use another language at home, which is 24 percentage points below the Victorian figure.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is the primary language for 90% of the community. While very few people speak another language, the 0.2% who speak little or no English is actually higher than the figure for most similar areas.
0.2% ▼ -45.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.2%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Portland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22110/portland/topic/language